Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faltering Post for $825,000, and together they set about curing its ills; while he and his associates strengthened circulation, advertising and news coverage, she crusaded for social causes (education, housing) through exposes and lectures. In 1944 she urged the Federal Government to set up a Cabinet-rank department to encompass the areas of health, education and welfare...
...workers: "It's a mood of great uncertainty, of great frustration coupled with anger, a feeling of some helplessness in the face of what has been happening, a hesitancy about what lies in store for the future." That mood has been reflected in the new militance of labor. Rank-and-file members this year have rejected one contract in eight negotiated by union leaders. And it has not been lost on union members that Chicago Teamsters Local 705, by refusing last May to accept a nationally negotiated hourly wage increase of $1.10 over 39 months, drove both sides back...
...punching. On Sept. 10, when the political season gets going in earnest, Buchanan will be in the Agnew entourage as the Vice President begins his first extended campaign foray. Also going along, in addition to Agnew's own men, will be Bryce Harlow, a Nixon Counsellor with Cabinet rank who will serve as top contact with the White House; Speechwriter William Safire; and Martin Anderson, special consultant to the President on domestic issues, who will handle research...
...notifying Jarring that it was ready to compromise on the formal details of the talks. Originally, the government of Premier Golda Meir favored holding ministerial-level discussions somewhere close to the Middle East, perhaps on Cyprus; the Egyptians wanted the representatives to be of ambassadorial rank and the site to be New York. Israel finally agreed to New York meetings and said that the preliminary sessions could be handled by ambassadors. As its part of the bargain, the Israeli Cabinet was expected to nominate U.N. Ambassador Yosef Tekoah as its representative. But when the talks reach substantive issues, the negotiating...
Many of the problems that Stein and others deplore have been caused at least partially by the rise of the mutual funds and other institutional investors. The funds have grown from almost nothing before World War II to $39 billion in assets today. The mutual funds rank right after the pension funds as the biggest institutional shareholders. Though brokers derive some income from selling mutual fund shares, the funds nevertheless represent a threat not only to brokerage houses but also to savings banks and savings and loan associations. All are competing for the dollars that Americans have to invest...